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This is the first time I've needed to take a "reasonable salary" with my business and I'm creating my w-2 using Turbo Tax Business Quick Employer Forms. Since I've not yet paid any SS or Medicare taxes I entered zero but it responds with a audit warning prompt. Can I submit my w-2 with zero's for SS and Medicare?
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No. Since the IRS is a pay as you go system, you would need to make payments and take deduction as the year goes on, not the following year. You need to do this on a quarterly basis.
Federal law requires you, as an employer, to withhold certain taxes from your employees' pay. Each time you pay wages, you must withhold – or take out of your employees' pay – certain amounts for federal income tax, social security tax, and Medicare tax. You must also withhold Additional Medicare Tax from wages you pay to an employee in excess of $200,000 in a calendar year. Under the withholding system, taxes withheld from your employees are credited to your employees in payment of their tax liabilities. Federal law also requires you to pay any liability for the employer's portion of social security and Medicare taxes. This portion of social security and Medicare taxes isn't withheld from employees.
Use Form 941 to report the following amounts.
Don't use Form 941 to report backup withholding or
income tax withholding on nonpayroll payments such as
pensions, annuities, and gambling winnings. Report these
types of withholding on Form 945, Annual Return of Withheld
Federal Income Tax.
After you file your first Form 941, you must file a return for
each quarter, even if you have no taxes to report, unless you
filed a final return or one of the exceptions listed next applies.
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i941.pdf
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